Hello there. Today’s card uses the fabulous ‘sunflower bee’ stamp set from Julie Hickey Designs, and for one I’ve used every stamp in the set on this card! I was inspired by the sketch at TGIF challenges and took my colours from Less is More‘s colour wheel. I’m also going to share it at Happy… Read More sunflower bee
Welcome to my crafty blog. It’s time for a new challenge over at Love to Craft and as always the theme is ‘anything goes’. I decided to go with some simple masking on a piece of Clarity’s glorious ‘Waimea Falls’ designer card. I ran a black Sharpie round the edge of the card to start… Read More morning deer for Love to Craft challenge
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’ve been playing with some more of the new releases from Julie Hickey Designs – this time a couple of her new stencils. I’ve used the sketch from The Paper Players for my layout and am also sharing it with Less is More where their theme is stencils. I started… Read More a beautiful bloom
Hello crafty friends. I’ve stepped away from black & white today, back to one of my favourite techniques of blending colours. I picked up the palette from CAS Colours & Sketches and paired it with the layout from Freshly Made Sketches I started with the outer part of a mask that I’d cut using a… Read More wonderful birthday
Hello there! I’m back with another card using the latest Craft Club goodies from Clarity – this time it’s the pocket watch and sentiment stamps. I thought the sentiment worked well for the current theme of encouragement from Time Out challenges and picked up the colour palette from Hand Stamped Sentiments as well. I was… Read More all good things take time
Hello there. I’ve got a sympathy card to share with you today, using the ferns stencil & dies designed by Hazel Eaton for Julie Hickey Designs. I’ve actually used a technique I picked up from Hazel with the fern stencil as well, thanks to the current challenge at Just Add Ink (I’ve used foliage &… Read More sympathy ferns
Hello there! I still had Claritystamp’s ‘Tina’s doodle flowers’ out on my desk, so decided to make use of the dragonflies from the set for today’s card, thanks to the inspiration photo at The Card Concept (I know it’s a butterfly, but dragonflies are close, aren’t they?) I took the layout from Freshly Made Sketches… Read More doodle dragonflies
Well it’s Sunday (it comes round so quickly!), so I’ve gone back into Claritystamp’s Craft Club for the ‘trio of flowers’ set from August 2021 – it’s a really sweet little group of stamps. As I usually do, I started with a square of white card. I ran a piece of masking tape across the… Read More Claritystamp Craft Club lookback – trio of flowers
Hello there. Today’s card has taken inspiration from a photo a friend of mine shared this morning with the most beautiful sunrise. I thought the colours over at Inspire.Create would be perfect for a landscape scene using Stampin’ Up!’s ‘on the horizon’ stamps. It also works for the ‘masculine’ theme from Just Add Ink –… Read More sunrise or sunset?
Welcome to my crafty blog and another card with one of my favourite Claritystamps – ‘Tina’s floral spray’. I’ve teamed it up with the ‘mountains & hills’ masks that we used on Clarity’s recent summer retreat thanks to the layout from Freshly Made Sketches, together with the palette from Color Throwdown I started with a… Read More purple mountains
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